Le Terroir | New Belgium Brewing

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Poured from 22oz bottle into glass. 2015 bottling.
Slightly cloudy, deep gold, with a dash of orange, colored body. Pours with a fizzy white head which reduces down to scattered islands and ring. Each pour brings back the bubbly head. Minimal lacing.
Tart aroma of peach and lemon. Just a bit of grassy funk. Also has a whiff of oak barrel.
Taste is tart with lemon and sour with peach and mango. Backed with a little oak barrel.
Dry mouth feel. Good carbonation.
Good balance of fruity and tart components. Some sourness but not totally puckering. Body gets more cloudy as pours get to the end of the bottle. The hops with the fruity flavors help to balance the overall experience of this tart and sour beer. Well done.

On tap at the Fort Collins brewery. I had wanted to try this for nearly a decade, but never come across a bottle.

The pour is pretty. The aroma is aggressively tart but well-balanced and beery with firm nodes of lactic acid and Belgian yeast. The flavor is dense but quite impressively smooth, extreme brett up front moving into a rich, yeasty middle and a finish that's a perfect balance between dry, sour, and spicy.

This is a goddamn masterpiece, easily one--if not THE--best American-brewed Belgian I've ever had. That it debuted in 2005 is an incredible feat--even today, where it's quite easy to be fatigued by the number of US sours, Le Terroir stands in a class of its own.

A - A dark golden copper body, with light orange highlights, a moderate off white head, and lots of small bubble lacing.

S - Strong hit of acidity, a hint of wildness, and fruit notes of lemon zest and mango.

T - Follows the nose, but with a stronger fruit overtone over a tart sour core. The woodiness is present, and makes clear the wild aging element. That said, there is only a little barnyard, and the grass notes are also well receded. The candied mango and peach elements are the strongest residual of the hopping. Pretty tasty.

M - Decent carbonation, strong tartness and a mild pucker on the close.

O - Delicious with a couple years on it. A well integrated sour that I need to try again soon.

Ample hop character on the nose. Very citrusy paired with floral hop notes and lactic qualities.

Tess reminds me of a hopped fruit popsicle. Dynamic range of stone fruit character or mixed with tropical fruit. The hop character does come into play near the finish, with a low to moderate Hop bitterness.

Overall, this is A okay beer. For those who love IPAs and sours, This is right up your alley. However, if you don’t like hop character in your beer, you may not like this beer. It gets a 86/100.